Folly at Hare Hill Park
FOLLY AT HARE HILL PARK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1096140
- Date first listed:
- 03-Feb-2003
- List Entry Name:
- Folly at Hare Hill Park
- Statutory Address:
- FOLLY AT HARE HILL PARK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1096140
- Date first listed:
- 03-Feb-2003
- List Entry Name:
- Folly at Hare Hill Park
- Statutory Address 1:
- FOLLY AT HARE HILL PARK
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- FOLLY AT HARE HILL PARK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Rochdale (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 93613 16726
Details
335/0/10052 'Folly' at Hare Hill Park
03-FEB-03
GV II
Folly or grotto with pool, approximately 10 metres south-west of Hare Hills House. Circa 1900 or earlier. Gritstone boulders and rubble laid in irregular courses, cast-iron water wheel. A low single-room building set on a low mound, the building approximately 5 metres square with rounded corners and a flat 'roof'. Now approximately 2.5 metres high but probably originally taller. The most prominent feature is the small water wheel approximately 1 metre in diameter set into the southern side, and turned by a flow of water from a small pipe and stone channel on the roof. The water fell into a rectangular pool below, outside the building. In the north wall of the structure there is a low blocked doorway, left, with a deeply-set small square window to its right. On the west side, facing the drive, there is a deep niche approximately 45 cms high, and on the east side, facing the house, a shallow curved recess with a stone bench, the boulders forming the outer corners partly tumbled.
An ornamental garden building in the style of an eighteenth century grotto. The room within may be a pumping house for the water supply to the wheel, and the proximity to the house suggests that this was intended as an eye-catcher for those within. The miniature size of the wheel and the doorway suggests that it may also have been intended as an educational novelty for the public park laid out in 1900-1902. Hare Hills House was the property of the Newall family and was leased to the newly-established Littleborough Urban District Council in 1900, and the public park laid out soon after.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 490106
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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